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E. V. COULSTON.

HEATING SYSTEM. APPLICATION FILED MAR- 19. 1917.

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E. V. COULSTON.

HEATING SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19. 191?.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL V. ConLs'roN, a

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Rock Island, county of Rock Island, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Heating Systems, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained andthe best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to heatingsystems and particularly to that class of such devices adapted to dispense with the necessity of providing pipes in the basement for conveying warm air to difi'erent parts of the house. Furthermore, said invention relates particularly to such devices as will permit both the warmair for heating the house and the supply of colder air for keeping the circulation in operation to pass through a single register. o

The annexed drawings and the following, description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting butrone of va rious mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be employed. In said annexeddrawingm- Figure 1 represents a central vertical section of my improved heating system; Figs. 2 and 3 represent transverse sectional views taken in the planes represented by the lines II-II and III-III, respectively, Fig. 1.

My improved heating system comprises as its foundation a warm air furnace or heater of general or common construction to WhlCh is attached, in the manner hereinafter fully described, the new and improved features constituting my improvement.

In the annexed drawings, a warm air furnace or heater of general or common construction is shown at 1, provided with a round casing'2, with its bottom portlon cut away and having a lowercasing ring 3 supported by four cast iron legs 1. A maln circular base for the heater is shown at 5.- Said construction will'provide a hot air pas. sage 19 between the walls of the caslng 2 and the furnace'l, as is readily understood. For the purposes of my new and'improved attachments, there is provided a rectangular auxiliary base 6 attached at 7, 7, to the circular base 5 and. surroundin the latter.

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Specification of Letters m y.

STATES PATENT OFFICE;

V. CO'U'LSTON, OF ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS.

base 6 in sections, is an auxiliary rectangular casing 8, a flange 6' beingprovided upon the base 6 for this purpose, as shown. When the sections forming the walls 9 of the auxiliary casing are in place, a rectangular Patented July 1, 1919. Application filed March 19,1917. Serial No. 155,873. a

top 10 in tWo sections 11 and 12 is placed upon the top of these walls and around the outer edge ofthe round hot air collar 1 in the dome of the casing 2,

supported upon the top 10- so as'to register with, the openings 11" said sections- 11. and 12 being provided with rectangular openings 11 and 12, respectively.. A round,

are provided, having Wit and 12. Telescoping with the pipes 15 and fitting upon the outside of the same are rectangular pipes 16 with upper flanges 1G. Rigidlysuspended in the floor above the furnace is an au'xiliar box 17 in connection with the surface register 18, said box 17 being provided with :a circular opening 17 upon the edge of nihich hangs the pipe 14 by its flange 14c, and two rectangular openings 17 upon the edges of which hang the pipes 16 by their flanges 16. Transverse division walls 17 separate the hot air section 17' of box 17 from the cold airsections 17 thereof. This box 17 is of sufiicient size to permit the use of a register 18 sufliciently large enough to possess in its open spaces between the usual lattice-work thereof, a free air passing area equal to or greater than the combined areas of the cold and warm air pipes 15 and 13. This insures a condition wherein 3 all the heated air that ascends through pipe 141 will have room enough to spread out and pass through the open spaces of a larger area of register and also wherein an equal amount of cold air will pass downand through pipes 16 and 15 to space 20 between casings 2 and 8. By reason of the casin 2 being cut away at the bottom, as herein efore mentioned, there is provided the opening 21 between the passages 19 and20.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that the air in thepassage 19 will be heated and will ascend up around the 'heat er'and through the round pipe 13, telescoping pipe 14, circular opening 17' inthe I auxiliary ox 17 and through the register 18 to the apartments to be heated. Also,

the cold air in the apartments will fall through the ends of the register 18 and 1 openings 17 2 of the box 17 ,throughthe rectangular pipes 16 and 15, passage 20 and then through the opening 21, from which point it gradually becomes heated and ascends around the heater.

The advantages attaching to my improved heating. system hereinbefore fully shown and described, are as follows:

(1) By providing an auxiliary box in connection with the surface register, the area of the latterin its free spaces between the usual lattice-work thereof is equal to or greater than the combined areas of the cold and warm air pipes and will pass their total contents, a condition that would not exist if the hot air and cold \air pipes were connected directly to the register, without any box with minimum friction and in large volumes nary ability and'a short time to-set up the" heater in any house, bein designed in fact so as to keep up a more positive and complete circulation.

(3) By means of the flanges supporting upper sections of pipes from the box 17 above and other flanges supporting the lower sections of said pipes from the casing be low, the said pipes are flexible and can be drawn to various lengths making the plant adaptable to basements of varying helghts witlhoutany cutting or changing of materia v .(4) My construction is simple and easily assembled and requires only a man of ordifor the advantage of dwe ers in rural districts who often must do their own erecting.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In heatin systems, a heating element containing a 0t air flue; a surrounding casing containing a cold air flue communieating with said hot air flue, a register; a

box below such register and communicating with the apertures thereof; and telescoping plpes oining said hot .air flue and said box,

- the upper pi e being dependently supported from the ox and the lower pipe being supported by the element forming the hot 2. In a device for heating dwellings in comb1nation, a furnace, a casing about said furnace termlnating in a hot air collar, a hot air pipe fitting sald collar and forming an extension thereof, a register, a box having flanged division walls arranged below said register, a flanged pipe depending from the flanges of said division walls and connecting adjustably with said hot air pipe, and means surroundlng said casing for conducting cold air downward and discharging it into the bottom of said casing, whereby a circulation of air through a house may be effected.

3. In a device for heating dwellings in combination, a furnace, a round casing about said furnace, terminating in a hot air collar, a hot air'pipe fitting said collar and forming an extension thereof, a surface register above said furnace, a box havin flanged division walls depending from sai register, a flanged pipe depending from the flanges of said division walls and connecting adjustably with said hot air ipe, cold air boxes upon the remote sides 0 said depending walls, cold air pipes supported by said cold air boxes, flanged lower pipes adjustably connected to sald'cold air pipes, a rectangular cold air casing surrounding said round casing to form a cold air passage, and a top fitting said cold air casing, said top provlded with openings through which pass the hot air collar and said lower cold air pipes and upon which top said cold air pipes are supported by their said flanges.

In a device for heating dwellings, in combination, a floor grating, a box disposed therebeneath, flanged walls dependin in said box, said walls providing a centra air space,- a flanged adjustable hot air pipe depending from said flanged walls, said flanged walls providing also side cold air spaces, flanged cold air pipes supported in cold air pipes spaced from said hot air pipe,

a furnace, upward hot air and downward cold air conduits provided for said furnace, and pipes supported on said conduits, and connecting said conduits telescopically with said depending hot and cold air pipes, whereby after the furnace and conduits are set up, the ipes connected therewith may be telescopically adjusted over said furnace according-to the distances between the furnace and the box.

5. A hot air heating device for dwellings, consisting of a furnace provided with a hot air conduit around and extending above it and a cold air conduit around that and extending above the. furnace, pipes u rising from said conduits, and a grating aving means for supporting in dependent relation to said grating hot and cold air pipes the dependent pipes and the uprislng (PIPES adapted'to be arranged to meet in telescopically adjustable relation.

6. A hot air .heating device for dwellings consisting of a furnace provided with a hot air conduit around and above it, a cold air conduit around that and above the furnace, a floor register, a box below the register,

partitions in said box, hot and cold air pipes mately. proportionate to the sectional areas depending from said box and arranged of the corresponding hot and cold air pipes, to register telesco ically with the furnace whereby free circulation is maintained at all 10 conduits, the partltions being arranged to times.

5 divide the box and re ister into hot and cold Signed by me, this 7th day of March,

- air divisions, the uno structed areas of said 1917.

' divisions of the register being approxi- EARL V. COULSTON. 

